A passenger bus and a minibus collided on the Tver - Rzhev highway in Central Russia’s Tver Region this morning.
According to the press service of the Russian Emergencies Ministry, the death toll in the collision has reached 13 people.
"According to the latest data, the accident has left 13 people dead, 17 others were injured, four of them are being transported to the hospital by the ambulance," TASS cited the press service as saying.
The regional prosecutor’s office earlier reported that the accident had killed 12 people.
"The prosecutor’s office of the Tver Region has launched a probe into transport safety in the wake of the accident, which occurred near the village of Nekrasovo in the Kalinin Region. According to preliminary date, there were 14 people in the bus, 12 of them were killed," its press service said.
